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Cleveland Study of the Elderly: a Follow-Up, 1984-1988 (ICPSR 6985)

Principal Investigator(s):Ford, Amasa B.

Summary:

This follow-up survey, funded under two separate grants
from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), reinterviewed survivors of
STUDY OF THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, 1975-1976
(ICPSR 7773). The first part of the project, "Cleveland GAO Study of
the Elderly: A Follow-Up", was conducted from 1983 to 1986, and
reinterviewed survivors (n = 647) of the original 1975 sample (n =
1,834) to determine the impact of gender on the quality of life for
elders, along with stability and change in measures of mental health.
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This follow-up survey, funded under two separate grants
from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), reinterviewed survivors of
STUDY OF THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, 1975-1976
(ICPSR 7773). The first part of the project, "Cleveland GAO Study of
the Elderly: A Follow-Up", was conducted from 1983 to 1986, and
reinterviewed survivors (n = 647) of the original 1975 sample (n =
1,834) to determine the impact of gender on the quality of life for
elders, along with stability and change in measures of mental health.
During 1984, a subset of the interview subjects were visited at their
homes to validate self-reported impairment and disability. These data
are presented in Part 1, Cleveland GAO Study of the Elderly: A
Follow-Up, 1984 Data for Survivors of 1975 Sample. The second phase of
the project, "Cleveland Elderly 12 Years Later," describes changes
in disease, disability, and mortality since 1975 and
attempted to determine if differences were related to changes in
social support, use of health services, or economic status. The
study also sought to assess levels of social, economic, mental, and
physical well-being reported by respondents, and examined daily
activities, the use and quality of services, and the characteristics
of service providers. The "Cleveland Elderly 12 Years Later" data
were collected in 1987 and again in 1988. Data collected in 1987
consist of interviews with survivors of the original 1975 sample (Part
2) along with interviews from an additional sample drawn from the
1977 Medicare rolls (Part 3). During 1988,
interviews were again conducted with survivors of the original 1975
sample (Part 4) and survivors of the Medicare sample (Part 5).
Data collected in 1984, 1987, and
1988 for survivors of the 1975 sample may be merged with the original
data collected in 1975-1976 using the ID number.

Access Notes

These data are freely available.

This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA
is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

Study Description

Citation

Ford, Amasa B. Cleveland Study of the Elderly: a Follow-Up, 1984-1988. ICPSR06985-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06985.v1

Methodology

Sample:
Follow-up of survivors from a 1975 random sample of
noninstitutionalized persons living in Cleveland, Ohio, which was
taken from Medicare and Medicaid lists.

Data Source:

Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS)
questionnaires

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1998-03-02

Version History:

2006-03-30 File DD6985.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.